I find it bemusing to imagine Mel Brook's movies being released today. Think about Blazing Saddles. It'd be met with nonstop claims about all sorts of isms and

I find it bemusing to imagine Mel Brook's movies being released today. Think about Blazing Saddles. It'd be met with nonstop claims about all sorts of isms and ists with coordinated Twitter attacks to try to hurt Brooks or any company that facilitated it or its release. And of course he is not, nor are his films. In a way it's the same thing that's already happened to Mark Twain and The Adventurers of Huckleberry Fin. It's now been banned in numerous US schools under typically facile implications of isms and ists, because of a certain word. The thing I find most bewildering though is that people seem to no longer actually care about content or context - it's all about the most incredibly superficial approach to everything. It's interesting that both Mel Brooks with Blazing Saddles, and Twain with Huck Fin, made a point of contrasting the superficiality and nonsensical nature of labels against the strength of character of those being labeled. The slave/prisoner in both tales being one of the only decent and honorable peoples in their respective stories. Just kind of sad to feel like we're regressing so much and calling it progress.